Re: [Pharo-users] Hmmm sending at:put: to an undefined object (nil) gives a confusing error message

[K K Subbu]

On 12/03/19 9:25 AM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
Squeak where (20 factorial at: 1) answers 0 (oh dear oh dear oh
dear).

Richard,

Could you please elaborate on why this is an error?

Large integers are place value encoded (base 256 little endian) and 
stored in byte arrays, so they need #at:/#at:put: (as private methods). 
Place value encoding is not architecture-specific so it doesn't affect 
portability of an image.

Regards .. Subbu